XAT - Xavier Aptitude Test - is an all India test conducted by
XLRI (formerly known as Xavier Labour Relations Institute), a business school
in Jamshedpur, as an entrance test for its management programmes as well as to
many other reputed top B-schools in the country. Around 92,000 MBA
aspirants gave the test this year on Jan 6, 2013.
XAT is a pencil-paper based test with three or four sections of
multiple-choice questions. Each question paper consists of 25-30 sheets of
paper. So, that makes it approximately 25 lakh sheets of paper printed every
year.
Hence, the question: Why hasn't XLRI shifted to the
online test mode, especially when it could save roughly thirty 60-feet tall trees annually?